The first survey of the area was conducted later that year, and the U.S. Federal Government began land parcels in present-day Fox Point in autumn 1835.

[5] Surveyors in the mid-nineteenth century noted a point that resembled a fox's snout jutting into Lake Michigan at the present location of Doctor's Park in the village.

The first permanent settler in the area was Cephas Buttles, who owned 160 acres in the Town of Milwaukee and built a cabin in present-day River Hills in 1843.

The early settlers farmed the land with new techniques that allowed them to cultivate wheat, barley, rye, and corn in the clayey soil.

One of Fox Point's first black residents was Calvin Reeves, a formerly enslaved man from Louisiana who moved to the community after the American Civil War with two Dutch-American soldiers returning home from the conflict.

German immigrants also began moving to Fox Point in the 1860s, forming St. John's Lutheran Church in 1866.

Many of the originally Dutch farmers had moved to the City of Milwaukee and to the southern Sheboygan County Town of Holland, and the villages of Oostburg and Cedar Grove.

But at the same time, wealthy Milwaukeeans were building summer homes in the lakeside community, which was easily accessible via the Lakeshore & Western Railroad constructed in 1870 and later via the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company streetcars.

In 1898, the Fox Point Club—the state's second golf course—opened in the community, and attracted even more wealthy residents to the area, serving as a social center.

[5] The rural Town of Milwaukee did not provide electricity, running water, sewage, or garbage collection, and by the 1920s, Fox Point's increasingly wealthy residents wanted a higher standard of municipal service.

[5][8] Although the late 1920s saw a short-lived building boom before the Great Depression, the population remained in the hundreds through World War II.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.90 square miles (7.51 km2), all of it land.

[10] Fox Point, situated within the humid continental climate zone (Köppen prefix D), experiences distinct seasonal variation, with wide swings in temperature and precipitation.

[11] The village's immediate proximity to Lake Michigan makes it susceptible to lake-effect snow in the winter months.

In Fox Point, the President also appoints a trustee and a resident to serve on the board of the North Shore Public Library.

[17][18] Portions of St. Augustine Prep's campus are located within Village boundaries, though the school's official mailing address is in Glendale.

Its board is a multi-municipal body with representatives from Fox Point, Bayside, Glendale, and River Hills.